LOS ANGELES – After years of selling online music digitally wrapped with copy and playback restrictions designed to hinder piracy, major music labels are beginning to make some songs available in the ...

PC Magazine reports Universal, Sony, Warner and EMI have developed a new digital album file format that appears to be in direct competition with Apple’s new “Cocktail” format. CMX – and Apple’s ...

Forget WAV, MP3 and M4A – major labels have something new in mind, and it's called CMX. Sony, Warner, Universal and EMI are reportedly preparing a new digital album format that will include songs, ...

Apple and the major labels are squaring off for a major battle this fall with competing formats for delivering the latest innovation in digitial music. Full albums will come with a cornucopia of ...

Now that the online music market is hoppin', it's time to introduce a new, not-very-ubiquitous physical format! That's the thought that apparently ran through the collective minds of SanDisk and the ...

There has been a fair amount of discussion about Apple's plans for its iTunes LP [iTunes link] line of enhanced album content in recent days after Gizmodo reported on a small indie record label owner ...

The ever-shrinking record album--its latest iteration being the compact disc--just got a lot more compact, or shall we say, micro. Backed by four major music labels, SanDisk on Monday announced a new ...